Comics & Culture
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Comics have become an important element in the cultural landscape of the 20th century, not only in its own right as a medium and an art form, but also as an inspiration to other means of communication, from text books to interactive media.
Comics & Culture consists of 13 articles written by scholars from Europe and USA and offers an introduction to the field of comics research. The articles exhibit a great variety of approaches including general discussions of the definition and aesthetics of comics, comparisons of comics with other media, analyses of specific comics and genres, and discussions of the cultural status of comics in society.
Of the contributors, Thierry Groensteen, Roger Sabin, Pascal Lefèvre, Donald Ault and M. Thomas Inge are all recognized and established comic researchers with important publication lists. To this group is added a new generation af comic researchers represented by Hans Christian Christiansen, Christopher Murray, Ole Frahm, Anne Magnussen and James How. As a third group, George Legrady, Jesper Nielsen and Søren Wichmann approach the subject of comics from another, but related field of research. In the case of Legrady from interactive media; Nielsen and Wichmann from Maya sequential art painted on ceramics.
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Introduction
Hans-Christian Christiansen & Anne Magnussen
Why are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization?
Thierry Groensteen
The Crisis in Modern American and British Comics, and the Possibilities of the Internet as a Solution
Roger Sabin
America's First Comics? Techniques, Contents, and Functions of Sequential Text-Image Pairing in the Classic Maya Period
Jesper Nielsen & Søren Wichmann
Modular Structure and Image/Text Sequences: Comics and Interactive Media
George Legrady
The Importance of Being 'Published'. A Comparative Study of Different Comics Formats
Pascal Lefévre
Comics and Film: A Narrative Perspective
Hans-Christian Christiansen
"Cutting Up" Again, Part II: Lacan on Barks on Lacan
Donald Ault
Popaganda: Superhero Comics and Propaganda in World War Two
Christopher Murray
From Ahab to Peg-Leg Pete: A Comic Cetology
M. Thomas Inge
Weird Signs: Comics as Means of Parody
Ole Frahm
The Semiotics of C. S. Peirce as a Theoretical Framework for the Understanding of Comics
Anne Magnussen
What if the Apocalypse Never Happens: Evolutionary Narratives in Contemporary Comics
Abraham Kawa
2000 AD and Hollywood: The Special Relationship between a British Comic and American Film
James How
